Notifier: Missing launch feedback after clicking icon

[Daniel Kulesz]

Binary package hint: adept

When you click on the Icon of the adept notifier in the system tray, there is no launch feedback of any kind that something is going to happen. The adept updater starts after a few seconds just fine, but some launch feedback (like the "wait cursor" or a small splash screen) would really improve usability of this tool a lot for first time users.

[Geert Jan Alsem (gj-alsem)]

I don't think this is a specific problem of the package "adept".

For me this happens with certain programs (I think all of them are non-GTK+), like Open Office and VLC Media Player, that take a while to load. When I double click a document or video file to open with these programs I get no visual feedback whatsoever. Normally when I open a file I get (at least) feedback in the form of a mouse cursor animation.

This results in people opening files twice, because they think the first time didn't work. I have seen this happen to several people. They double click a file, wait a second or so, see no feedback, so they double click it again. Resulting in opening the file twice.

I guess the solution would be to always show the "wait cursor" animation whenever any file or program is opened.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Unfortunately, Adept has been unmaintained by its original authors for several years, and nobody has stepped up to continue its development. (Though the Muon Suite is arguably its spiritual successor) As such, Adept has been removed from releases of Kubuntu from 12.10 onwards, and no additional improvements will be made to the software.

We thank you for reporting this bug all the same, and apologize for taking so long to respond to it.